Polkadot Digest 17 Apr 2024

Polkadot News

Ajuna Network has won the most recent parachain lease auction. https://parachains.info/auctions

The 2024-Q1 Polkadot-API update has been released. https://forum.polkadot.network/t/polkadot-api-2024-q1-update/7462

Referendum 639, increasing the backing timeout on validators from 2 to 2.5 s and the approval-voting timeout from 12 to 15s, executed yesterday. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/639

Referendum 648, proposing to upgrade the Polkadot relay chain and system parachains runtime to v1.2.0, is currently passing almost unanimously. https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/648

Kusama News

Reminder that with the passing of Referendum 374, asynchronous backing will be enabled on 20 April (Saturday) at block 22_818_800. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/374

And with the passing of Referendum 375, coretime will be enabled tomorrow (Thursday, 18 April) at block 22_793_600. https://kusama.polkassembly.io/referenda/375

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